I'm getting shorter and shorter.

There's a saying that pops up on military bases -- "I'm getting short." It has nothing to do with osteoporosis or a lack of calcium causing a shrinkage as your bones lose the ability to hold up the rest of you at the height to which you were accustomed. It has to do with the length of time left in an assignment.

5 months down, 1 to go. It's impossible to predict anything exact this far out (or any length of time into the future, really), but it's quite possible that I will be on an airplane exactly one month from now.

How do I feel about it? Well, duh, how would you feel? I'm ready to get out of here. Unfortunately, the assignment I'd previously mentioned in Louisiana is probably not going to happen. I got an email offering me an assignment in Korea, at a base that, as far as I can tell, is at the furthest tip of the DMZ. Let's see. I tell them I need an assignment in the states, and they offer me Korea. Grrrr. I've said no; we'll see what happens from here. To be fair, they've never promised to put me wherever I want. I'm more of the opinion that I deserve an assignment in the States after being deployed for two years.

Plenty of time for all that to work itself out, though; I won't be reporting to a new assignment until June. I'm sure it will all work out. One way or the other, everything will work out just fine.

Posted: Sat - March 20, 2004 at 02:01 AM

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I'm getting shorter and shorter.